Historical Far Left

The Historical Far Left was a socialist faction of Italian politics which existed from 1867 to 1904. It existed as the extreme wing of the Historical Left before unification, after which it split from the Left due to Giuseppe Garibaldi's opposition to the Left's acceptance of a monarchy under the House of Savoy. The party supported complete separation of church and state, decentralization, pro-Europeanism, progressive taxation, an independent judiciary, free and compulsory education for children, universal suffrage, and women's and workers' rights while opposing capital punishment, protectionism, nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism. The Far Left would later split into the Italian Radical Party (which supported universal suffrage under a constitutional monarchy), the Italian Republican Party (which insisted on the creation of a republic), and the Italian Socialist Party (which sought a social revolution).